The Magpie , or The Maid?
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The English version of La Pie voleuse (1815), a melo drame in three acts by Louis-Charles Caigniez and J. M. T. Badouin d'Aubigny. Translated and adapted by, and credited to, Isaac Pocock. First printed in London 1814, with a second edition appearing in 1816.
Performance history in South Africa
Performed as a benefit performance for Mrs Westcott in the Cape Town on 8 October 1835 by the Garrison Players, with Love, Law and Physic (Kenney) as afterpiece.
Sources
http://archive.org/details/magpieormaidmelo00pocorich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pocock
Bosman, 1928: pp
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